Ecofriendly Energy in Lagos Nigeria
PEOPLES DISPOSITION TOWARDS ECO-FRIENDLY ENERGY
(CASE STUDY OF GENERATING SETS USAGE IN ETIOSA EAST L.G.A)
PROJECT DONE BY JOSHUA AWE
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, AKOKA
DURING INTERNSHIP AT THE NIGERIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS ECOFRIENDLY ENERGY?
Eco-friendly energy is energy that does not disrupt or disturb ecological processes or the earth’s biogeochemical cycle.
Advances in civilizations have always been closely linked with availability and exploitation of energy, manufacturing and technology relied on dependable sources of energy and in the twentieth century world energy consumption had increased because of population increase. Fossil fuels are the most commonly used by industrialized nations (in fact the world at large) these are oil, coal and gas which supplies about 90% of the worlds commercially traded energy. Fossil fuels were formed hundreds of millions of years ago; they are an accumulation of energy rich organic molecules produced by organisms as a result if photosynthesis over millions of years, fossil fuels are like concentrated stored solar energy. because they are getting depleted and take along time to form they are known as finite or non-renewable resources of energy they also burn up to release excess carbon dioxide into the environment which depletes the ozone layer and in turn causes the earths global warming. On the other hand there are several renewable energy sources which replenish themselves or are continuously present as a feature of the earths ecosystem, hence the term eco friendly some forms of renewable energy are also referred to as perpetual energy, for example in plants photosynthesis converts light energy to chemical energy.
Carbondioxide+water+sunlightenergy-----} biomass/chemical energy oxygen
This energy is stored in organic molecules of the plant as wood, starch
Oils or other compounds .which means any form of biomass energy /biofuels can be tracked back to the energy of
(CASE STUDY OF GENERATING SETS USAGE IN ETIOSA EAST L.G.A)
PROJECT DONE BY JOSHUA AWE
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, AKOKA
DURING INTERNSHIP AT THE NIGERIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS ECOFRIENDLY ENERGY?
Eco-friendly energy is energy that does not disrupt or disturb ecological processes or the earth’s biogeochemical cycle.
Advances in civilizations have always been closely linked with availability and exploitation of energy, manufacturing and technology relied on dependable sources of energy and in the twentieth century world energy consumption had increased because of population increase. Fossil fuels are the most commonly used by industrialized nations (in fact the world at large) these are oil, coal and gas which supplies about 90% of the worlds commercially traded energy. Fossil fuels were formed hundreds of millions of years ago; they are an accumulation of energy rich organic molecules produced by organisms as a result if photosynthesis over millions of years, fossil fuels are like concentrated stored solar energy. because they are getting depleted and take along time to form they are known as finite or non-renewable resources of energy they also burn up to release excess carbon dioxide into the environment which depletes the ozone layer and in turn causes the earths global warming. On the other hand there are several renewable energy sources which replenish themselves or are continuously present as a feature of the earths ecosystem, hence the term eco friendly some forms of renewable energy are also referred to as perpetual energy, for example in plants photosynthesis converts light energy to chemical energy.
Carbondioxide+water+sunlightenergy-----} biomass/chemical energy oxygen
This energy is stored in organic molecules of the plant as wood, starch
Oils or other compounds .which means any form of biomass energy /biofuels can be tracked back to the energy of